Arthur Harold Landis was an American fantasy, fiction and non-fiction author.
Born at Birmingham, Alabama, to a family of vaudeville performers, Landis later travelled throughout the American West working at a variety of jobs. In 1937 he enlisted in the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of the International Brigade in Spain during the civil war, serving as a scout and artillery spotter. He served in the battles of Aragon and Teruel. Before departing Spain, he was able to load his unit's archives onto a ship that left the country.
He founded in 1969, the horror and fantasy fiction magazine Coven 13 which serialized the novel as Let There Be Magick! under the name James R. Keaveny, along with publishing the work of a number of other writers.
A non-fiction book by Landis The Abraham Lincoln Brigade was published in 1967, the result of many years of research and interviews with survivors of the Brigade. In 1972 he published Spain the Unfinished Revolution through Camelot Publishing.
